Chapter 384

Lanie

“Little cars are listening, love,” I said as calmly as I could to Xander, trying to remind him that the children

were present.

I didn’t want our pups to be scared, even though it was all I could do to keep myself from screaming at my

grandfather that I needed to talk to him. Stella’s small hand crept into mine and squeezed. When I looked down at her, she was smiling brightly up at me.

Because she knew I was upset? Or just because she was my sunny-faced angel? I bent to scoop her up,

staggering a step under her weight. She was getting too big to be carried, but I didn’t want to put her down. It could be the last time I ever picked her up.

I rubbed my nose against her cheek, and she hugged me hard.

“Love you, Mama,” she said, which was a nice change from being called Mother.

Malachi, Xander, and Mason were muttering about the lights, power surges, the evidence of strangers in

the nearby town. Alpha stuff. It was clear I’d have to wait my turn.

“Xander,” I repeated. “You and Mason should go with Malachi somewhere else to talk about this.””

Mason looked over at us. He put his hand on his brother’s shoulder. “She’s right. Malachi, we should take

this back to the conference room.”

this.”

He nodded silently and used our link to think, “Sorry, love.”

the leadership council,” Malachi said. “They all need to be

them left

face was pulled into a

like he was disappointed.

“Will you play with me and Allie

stacks of board games on the

I still couldn’t figure out if she was

wanted him to do. It made sense that he’d agree to play with them. It wasn’t

something in the way she looked at me made

situation.

to do, I had to find out, not keep guessing and making silent assumptions about her motives. She was a child,

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Chapter 384

this time, either, but Greyson, who stepped through

fine.”

fast. I

and I exchanged

startled us, that’s all,” Zane said. “That is what happened, isn’t it?”

nodded. “I’d assume so, since the lights were

Izzy. Let’s

hands. She shot a look at me over her shoulder right

closed the door.

held tight in my throat. My entire body felt slumped but tense at

like my grandfather and Greyson both said, but

than that. All four of us had felt it.

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